Finding Thor

I spent much of the day today following up on D's request to have a copy of the video I'd made, back in 2008, of the first time puppy-Thor met two-year-old Lillian. I remembered having seen it not all that long ago, so I was convinced it was accessible somewhere. I found a number of old photos of Thor, and quite a few of Lillian, by searching my personal files on the drive at work. I spent a while trying to look on the Toshiba with the bad keyboard, but my inability to get the "enter" key to work made it impossible to do a search. Then I realized that my first laptop, the old Lenovo, was the main computer I was using when we got Thor, so I searched there too. I realized I should narrow the search to the dates right after he came home, so I used LJ to narrow that down. And then, voila, LJ let me know that I'd uploaded the video to YouTube, so, yay. Here it is.

Other things I did today: I watched the especially grisly emergency surgery on the season finale of Doc Martin. I took two bags of now-garbage out of the freezer and down to the curb. I returned that alto sax I found in the guest room a few weeks ago back to the high school where it belongs. I visited the very end of J's sword class, for the first time. I found my shovel - the top foot of the handle was sticking out of the snow on my pile of soil in the driveway - and decided it wasn't going to help me chip away the ice on my front walk. And I had a great conversation with D. about his spring term class plans and the classes he might take someday if he majors in Linguistics and gets a certificate in language teaching.

A path!

Today's big project was the creation of a path from my driveway to my front door - only 18' or so needed to be melted and removed, but it took two hours and 17 pots of boiling water carefully carried past cats without any tripping or spilling. It wasn't that I melted the whole path; rather, with enough water strategically placed I could use the shovel as a wedge and break out slabs to toss aside. It is so much nicer now.

Other things I did included watching the season finale of Victoria - the Crystal Palace Exhibition!, two trips to Safeway, and attending Chinese class.